SQL Optimisation Contracts in England

SQL Optimisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 535 647
Rank change year-on-year +64 +112 +121
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 14 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.019% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.022% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - £275 -
25th Percentile £263 £294 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -28.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile - £450 £628
90th Percentile - £606 £634
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -18.18% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SQL Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Optimisation in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 7 £450 -37.93% 10
North of England +21 4 £275 -31.25% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £275 - 2
South East - 3 £450 - 4
SQL Optimisation
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SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) DBA
1 6 (42.86%) SQL DBA
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.14%) Flask
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (50.00%) ETL
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Database Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Database Security
4 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (35.71%) High Availability
4 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Workload Management
7 1 (7.14%) Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) API Development
7 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
7 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
7 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (7.14%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) Teradata
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle